at the previous Meetings, and public deliberations of their tribe. After a short discussion among the natives, I again read over the boundaries of the purchase, to which the whole of the claimants unanimously assented. Reihana and Ngawaka, coming forward amongst the first, to sign the Deed, remarking as they did so, to some few around them (who objected to their making such demands), that they merely wished to exact as much land as they could before holding the pen; which act, they very properly regarded as signifying their irretrievable consent to the final transfer of their land. On the 16th. the whole of the men, women and children of the Ngatiapa tribe, with the Officers and gentlemen who attended yesterday, made their appearance